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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Sudan	Romania	Serbia
Dec 31, 1999	26,168	22,414	7,611
Dec 31, 2000	26,771	22,262	7,587
Dec 31, 2001	27,387	22,106	7,574
Dec 31, 2002	28,017	21,931	7,570
Dec 31, 2003	28,662	21,828	7,551
Dec 31, 2004	29,321	21,704	7,533
Dec 31, 2005	29,996	21,571	7,510
Dec 31, 2006	30,686	21,443	7,481
Dec 31, 2007	31,393	21,129	7,451
Dec 31, 2008	32,137	20,779	7,419
Dec 31, 2009	33,078	20,607	7,389
Dec 31, 2010	33,891	20,485	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	34,568	20,385	7,304
Dec 31, 2012	35,293	20,296	7,269
Dec 31, 2013	36,093	20,224	7,234
Dec 31, 2014	37,058	20,151	7,199
Dec 31, 2015	38,165	20,055	7,162
Dec 31, 2016	39,294	19,938	7,124
Dec 31, 2017	40,512	19,823	7,087
Dec 31, 2018	41,764	19,713	7,048
Dec 31, 2019	42,952	19,622	7,010
Dec 31, 2020	44,121	19,496	6,964
Dec 31, 2021	45,290	19,351	6,898
Dec 31, 2022	46,498	19,266	6,833

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.